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No. 6l4,954. Patented Nov. 29, I898. H. JEFFEBY &. J. MOXON.

MUD GUARD STAY FUR BIGYCLES.

(Application filed Mar. 28, 1898.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

No. 6l4,954. Patented Nov. 29, I898. H. JEFFERY &. J. MOXON.

MUD GUARD STAY FUR BICYCLES.

(Application filed Mar. 28, 1898.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT Trice.

HENRY JEFFERY AND JOSEPH MOXON, OF STOCKBRIDGE, ENGLAND.

MUD-GUARD STAY FOR BICYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,954, dated November '29, 1398. Application filed March 28,1898. Serial No. 675,451. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY JEFFERY,II1a11- ager of steel-works, residing at Stockbridge, and JOSEPH MOXON, foreman of steel-works, residing at Hawthorn Brook, Stockbridge, near Sheffield, England, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Detachable Mud- Guard Stays for Bicycles and the Like, of which the following is aspecification.

According to our invention we provide bicycles and the like with readily-detachable mud-guards carried by stays of trough-wire, the ends of which are formed to enter sockets attached by lugs to the machine and carrying spring-catches to hold to the sockets.

Our improvements are shown in the drawings annexed.

Figure 1 is a side View of an ordinary bicycle with the mud-guards attached. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 an end view, of one of the sockets and the lug-piece of which it forms a part for the back wheel. Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views of another socket and lug-piece for the front Wheel. Fig. 4 shows separately one of the stays and the socket-pieces into which the ends of the stay enter. Fig. 5 is a section on the line a b, Fig. 4; and Fig. 6, a section at right angles to Fig. 5. Figs. 7 and 8 show two ways in which the portions of the stay containing the inner ends of the springs of the catches may be surrounded with a tubular cap or casing to exclude dirt.

In the drawings, A is one of the lug-pieces, formed from a piece of sheet metal turned over at one end to form the socket A and with a hole A formed through it at the other end, by which it can be secured to any part of the machine. In Fig. 1 these lugs are shown as being attached to the ends of the wheel-axles, the ends of the axles passing through the holes A and the lugs clamped and held securely by the ordinary retainingnuts, which screw onto the ends of the axles.

B is the stay to which the mud-guard O is riveted. It is formed from one piece of troughwire flattened and bent round at the middle, as shown.

D are the spring-catches carried at the ends of the stay.

As will be seen, the ends of the trough-Wire stay are bent inward to make the wire at these parts correspond with the cross -section of the sockets, the two edges of the Wire being brought toward one another with sufficient space left to allow the spring-catch to extend outward between them.

The inner end of each spring is formed to rest against the bottom of the trough and is retained by a rivet E, as shown. The other end of the spring stands out from the bottom of the trough, and a notch D is formed in it where it projects out from the stay. The ex treme end of the spring is rounded, so that when the ends of the stay are being inserted into the sockets A these ends of the springs may be pressed inward and allow the ends of the stay to enter freely. When the ends of the stay have been passed into the sockets far enough for the notches D to be brought opposite to the sockets, the catches fly outward, and the ends of the notches coming against the ends of the sockets retain the stay securely. The projecting shoulder D at the inner end of each notch prevents the ends of the stay from being pressed down too far into the sockets. To release the stay from the sockets, the spring-catches can be pressed inward by the small buttons D Its ends can then both be withdrawn simultaneonslyfrom the sockets and the mud guard removed with it.

Where the mud-guards pass between the fork carrying the front wheel or the forked portion of the frame carrying the hind driving-wheel, they may be retained by pins passing through them or be retained in any other suitable manner.

To prevent dirt passing down the troughwire into the end portions which contain the spring-catches, the wire is filled in solid just above the inner end of each spring by a solid filling-piece B. The inner portion or stem of each spring may also be completely inclosed by a tubular cap-piece G, surrounding the portion of the stay which contains it. The

extreme ends of the stay are also closed in, as shown, by bending over a portion of the Wire.

To allow of the cap-piece G being removed whenever required from around the end of the spring, the rounding of the wire might be continued for some distance inward along the wire, as shown at Fig. 7, so that the cap may be slid endwise along the wire, or the tubular cap might be of thin spring metal and be slot-ted longitudinally, as shown at Fig. 8, so that when moved endwise in the opposite direction it might open out to pass the shoulder D of the spring and so be slid oif from the end of the stay.

Where the central portion of the wire is flattened and bent round, it is strengthened by a strengthening-piece II, the ends of which are held by closing the sides of the troughwire around them, as shown at Figs. 4cand 5.

Vhat we claim is- 1. A two-armed stay for carrying the mudguard for a bicycle or other wheel, formed from trough-wire flattened at the center and bent round to fit to the interior of the in udguard where the mudguard is to be attached to it and carrying at the end of each arm a spring-catch lying within the hollow of the trough-wire substantially as described.

2. A two-armed stay for carrying a mud guard composed of one piece of trough-wire flattened at the center and bent round to fit to the interior of the mud-guard and strengthened around the bend by a correspondinglybent plate held at its ends within the troughwire arms by closing over onto a portion of the sides of the arms substantially as described.

A two-armed stay for carrying a mudguard, formed from trough-wire having a spring-catch carried within the end of each trough-arm and having a tube surrounding the portion of each arm in which the rear end of each spring-catch is contained so as to eX- clude dirt substantially as described.

HENRY JEFFERY. JOSEPH MOXON.

Witnesses:

W. H. CHAPMAN, LAWRENCE W. BEECH. 

